The station also offers the advantage of enabling Lille–Tours(–Bordeaux) and Strasbourg-Tours(-Bordeaux) trains to serve Paris via the LGV Interconnexion Est without having to turn around at a terminus station (e.g. Gare de l'Est or Gare de Lyon).

[1] The station project first received the opposition of the SNCF and the local residents of Massy; the project was considered to be too close to Montparnasse station, in Paris, and a potential nuisance.

The Ministry of Transport nevertheless pursued the project, as the station might avoid the suburban commuters having to travel through the capital with the RER C or B from Massy-Palaiseau.

[3] In 2007, works were launched in order to restructure the area and the station and better integration in Massy.

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